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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Help with MS-DOS
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> An alternative
> might be to install your own device driver which does nothing but
> allow reading/writing to a small buffer so the programs can trade
> info back and forth easily.  

Actually, this is how environment variables are handled.  The address of
the buffer is located in a program's program segment header.


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Melinda Shore 
University of Chicago Computation Center

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